Mary Ann Roser relates that her friend who recently died of brain cancer was a frequent cellphone user, and how her cancer was in the temporal lobe, the area near where most people hold a cell phone while talking.

University of Michigan researchers developed a better nanopore that could advance understanding of a class of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s, by mimicking the structure of the silk moth’s antenna.

A watchdog group revealed that there had been several instances when the U.S. almost had a nuclear accident. The public was never informed. Should we care? Or is it better that we don’t know? Who’s to blame if it really did happen?

If you knew how forests in China were mined ruthlessly just to extract the needed materials to manufacture your most loved iPod, or how it contributed to glacial melting, dirty air, and the increasing incidence of respiratory disease in China, and in L.A., you wouldn’t love the iPod at all.

European Union farm ministers failed to reach a decision on Thursday on whether to grant import approval to three genetically modified (GM) crops. The public has long decided that they don’t want it. So, are the ministers waiting for “grease money”?

For failure to comply with rules and regulations pertaining to the Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) ban, the European Commission has criticized Bulgaria and threatened that it has two months to come to heel or face the European Court of Justice.

Milk and meat from ‘cloned’ animals’ offspring could soon be on sale without any labels, the European consumer group BEUC warns. The European Commission (EC) is threatening to force through the proposal backed by the British Government.

A medical doctor pointed out in a video that regardless of how strongly anyone feels about being able to use cell phones and wireless technology, there is a price to be paid. And it’s none else but our body’s health that suffers.

A major health insurance program in Ghana that the World Bank is pushing as a success model for other developing countries is severely flawed and not working for most Ghanaians, according to Oxfam and Ghanaian NGOs’ report.

College student, Amelia Jensen, suggests that one way people can help in stopping the killing of animals by the meat industry and other businesses that make money out of animal abuse, is by going vegetarian.

A website depicts environmental radiation levels across the USA. This is the first web site where the average citizen (or anyone in the world) can see what radiation levels are anywhere in the USA at any time. Look closely, you may be within a radiation radius.

We are witnessing corporate-government seizure of the means by which humans survive and thrive. Major corporations, backed by government, are causing cancer and other diseases with their toxic products.

The government’s sudden change of mind ignores the ample evidence showing that most of the damage wreaked by fluoride isn’t of the dental nature, but is instead found deep within the body, in our bones and organs.

An enzyme viewed as an executioner, because it can push cells to commit suicide, may actually short circuit a second form of cell death, researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have discovered.

Although not really a major victory, but Greenville Water System’s decision to reduce the amount of fluoride in its drinking water is still a welcome development in the fight to eradicate flouridation of water.

In a recent poll, out today, 95% of the 1,508 people surveyed reported using some type of electronic device — such as a cellphone, computer, video game or TV, is the culprit behind their sleeplessness.

A federal appeals court in San Francisco has overturned a previous ruling to destroy the genetically modified sugar beets, ruling in favor of Monsanto and the USDA, to the utter disgust of anti-GMO advocates.

Italy’s supreme Court has ordered Vatican Radio to compensate a small town near Rome following claims that children there were at a higher risk of cancer because of the broadcaster’s high-powered transmitters.

In spite of some good news for the Mexican agriculture and biodiversity, the consequences of recent frosts in northern states and the aggressive propaganda of the industry is still putting at risk Mexico’s basic grain.

Maine is facing two intertwined issues that are in danger of striking anytime. How the bees are taken care of and how the people would let up from using pesticides and how they grow their alfalfa will hold the answer.

South Africa uses food shortage as an excuse to produce more GMO crops on an area that has significantly increased in size since last year’s. This, while neighboring Zimbabwe and Zambia has successfully avoided GMOs.

The Roundtable on Responsible Soy (RTRS) group is setting a criteria for their soy products to ensure Non-GMO products only are shipped to Europe. This move by RTRS is seen as a threat by palm oil producers.

Lawyers will debate before a panel of judges in Atlanta on Tuesday whether sharing food with the needy is a constitutional right or not, in a possible culmination of a years-long battle over Orlando’s handling of the homeless.

This may surely break the hearts of dog lovers and owners. But this is a very good reason for them to avoid kissing their pets. As the worn out, yet still wise, saying goes: it is better to be safe than sorry.

Markedly higher intake of vitamin D is needed to reach blood levels that can prevent or markedly cut the incidence of breast cancer and several other major diseases than had been originally thought.

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